Moon-Mad Monk (Kyōgetsubō)
A late eighteenth-century Japanese woodblock print book published in Edo in 1789 by Tsutaya Jūzaburō, attributed to Kitagawa Utamaro, made for a general urban readership. The pictures are monochrome ink landscapes with light tinting, showing cliffs, waterfalls, pine trees, moonlit shorelines and clouds, with loose calligraphic line and wide open ground a designer could borrow for minimal, atmospheric compositions.
